Therapeutic device



W. H. FITZ GERALD.

THERAPEUTIC DEVICE.

APPLICATION nun APR. 30, Hill.

1 ,3 1 5 ,825 Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

BY M I TORNEY.

mu COLUMBIA PLANouRAPu cm, WASHINGTON, n. c.

WILLIAM H. FITZ GERALD, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

THERAPEUTIC DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed April 30, 1917. Serial No. 165,373.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Frrz GERALD, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the countyof Hartford and State of Oonnecticut,have invented a new and ImprovedTherapeutic Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices that are employed in the treatment ofdiseases, and an object of my invention, among others is to provide adevice that will correct various conditions that tend to promote orirritate disease.

One form of device embodying my invention and in the construction anduse of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may beattained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved device.

Fig. 2 is a view in cross section through the same.

It has been found that certain beneficial results are obtained byabrading or scoring parts of the human body, and my improved device,illustrated and described herein, has been found extremely useful forsuch purposes.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 5 indicates the scoring memberof my improved device and the numeral 6 indicates the pressure member.The scoring member is preferably made of wire dis posed in spiral formand annular in shape, and the pressure member 6 extends through theannular member within its coils, the ends of the pressure member beingjoined as are also the ends of the scoring member. It will be understoodthat the pressure member is composed of elastic material, as rubher,that will serve to contract the scoring member and thus produce thebinding action required of it.

It is intended that this device shall be applied to a member of thehuman body, as a finger, and the device will be of such size as to bindsuch member to a certain degree,

the presure member causing this binding action and the coils of thescoring member serving to produce grooves and ridges in the member towhich the device is applied.

The pressure member will also, to a cer and the depth to which the coilswill sink into the flesh is thus determined.

IVhile it is preferred that a separate pressure member shall comprise apart of the structure, yet it will be possible in some instances toobtain the required binding action by constructing the scoring member sothat it alone will have more or less elasticity and serve the requiredpurpose.

In acordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I havedescribed the principles of operation of invention, together with thedevice which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof;but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is onlyillustrative, and that the invention can be carried out by other means.

I claim:

,1. A therapeutic device comprising an elastic member disposed inannularform, and a series of ribs extending along the surface of said elasticmember and disposed to form a scoring element.

2. A therapeutic device comprising a scoring member, having an openingextending lengthwise thereof and having ribs for scoring purposes, and abinding member located within and inclosed by said scoring member toimpart elasticity to said scoring member.

3. A therapeutic device comprising a scoring member made from wirespirally arranged and annularly formed, and an elastic core extendingand inclosed within the spirals of said binding member to impart elasticaction thereto.

WILLIAM H. FITZ GERALD.

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